How Many Are Your Works, O LORD! 2 CPDV you are dressed with light like a garment, while you stretch out heaven like a tent. BSB BSB: He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
3 CPDV You cover its heights with water. You set the clouds as your stairs. You walk upon the wings of the winds. BSB BSB: laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
4 CPDV You make your Angels a breath of life, and your ministers a burning fire. BSB BSB: He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
5 CPDV You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age. BSB BSB: He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
6 CPDV The abyss, like a garment, is its clothing. The waters will remain standing above the mountains. BSB BSB: You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
7 CPDV At your rebuke, they will flee. At the voice of your thunder, they will dread. BSB BSB: At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
8 CPDV The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them. BSB BSB: the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—
9 CPDV You have set a limit that they will not cross. And they will not return to cover the earth. BSB BSB: You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
11 CPDV All the wild beasts of the field will drink. The wild donkeys will anticipate in their thirst. BSB BSB: They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 CPDV Above them, the flying things of the air will dwell. From the midst of the rocks, they will utter voices. BSB BSB: The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
13 CPDV You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works, BSB BSB: He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
15 CPDV and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man. BSB BSB: wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
16 CPDV The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted. BSB BSB: The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
17 CPDV There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron. BSB BSB: where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
18 CPDV The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog. BSB BSB: The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
19 CPDV He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting. BSB BSB: He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
20 CPDV You appointed darkness, and it has become night; all the beasts of the forest will cross through it. BSB BSB: You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
22 CPDV The sun arose, and they were gathered together; and in their dens, they will lie down together. BSB BSB: The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
23 CPDV Man will go forth to his work and to his activities, until the evening. BSB BSB: Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
24 CPDV How great are your works, O Lord! You have made all things in wisdom. The earth has been filled with your possessions. BSB BSB: How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
25 CPDV This sea is great and its hands are spacious. There are creeping things without number: the small animals with the great. BSB BSB: Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
26 CPDV There, the ships will pass by this sea-serpent that you have formed to mock them. BSB BSB: There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
28 CPDV What you give to them, they will gather. When you open your hand, they will all be filled with goodness. BSB BSB: When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
29 CPDV But if you turn your face away, they will be disturbed. You will take away their breath, and they will fail, and they will return to their dust. BSB BSB: When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
30 CPDV You will send forth your Spirit, and they will be created. And you will renew the face of the earth. BSB BSB: When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
31 CPDV May the glory of the Lord be for all ages. The Lord will rejoice in his works. BSB BSB: May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.
32 CPDV He considers the earth, and he makes it tremble. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. BSB BSB: He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
33 CPDV I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God, as long as I am. BSB BSB: I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 CPDV May my speech be pleasing to him. Truly, I will take delight in the Lord. BSB BSB: May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
35 CPDV Let sinners fade away from the earth, along with the unjust, so that they may not be. Bless the Lord, O my soul. BSB BSB: May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
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